The Seattle Star Newspaper, September 4, 1919, Page 10

ed aaa bt at aaa PS days before tate, when the population of New Fork City was 60,000. DOrs within 18 miles of each other | farming. ) farming land was sold for leas than PAGE 10 THE SEATTLE WORLD'S * * & IT OUGHT TO BE GOOD ADVICE FOR IT CARRIED UNCLE THRU 131 YEARS) TO WORK, PLAY AND ALSO LIVE LONG LIFE a aN FLEET TO DRAW Correspondent) BY B.C (iN. B. A. State HYDEN, Ky some Good Advice 4.—Listen te om the lips of the oldest wor man World, John Shell, 151 years old ¢ | September ° . "Work hard, but don't overwork Poo much work is as bad as too] an |Warren Predicts Assem- “The working is boat ne blage of Pickpockets his body were Concerned over the fact that “John an extremely large number of workin fo | professional pickpockets — and ever ince Ne we petty thieves are expected to @ver since he follow the fleet and President Wilson to Seattle and the Prince of Wales to British Colw Bnd lived in the < When “reds” meant Indians and not the Cincinnati team His k a by wa Chief of Police doet E Wars , work in days gone by ® at, Warren Splitting wood for the winter fire ft piles bunting game. fishing en chasing x00 epectal redskins westward ears Age however, he took to farming, and gs ae has been farming for three-quarters Of @ centuryhogs and corn prin Cipally, But he's a corking good uch Marksman even today, ar nly a | ‘ ght eaepf age ein which his country lared the chief, “which @ontest in which his scape Cocsered, the Ot i fon tried to- show him up—and ould poeaitty find Ite pater see orn in 1388 | will certainly appear in Heattie when ‘The : fleet arrives. The president an ites a" ireat Gn ¢ fleet will bring a large number Was born September 3, 1758, ten made New York city the capital of the United States, and something lke six Months before George W ington Was first inaugurated president of the United States. Shell is the only living American who has lived thru the whole row of presidents. | He got his first job, splitting rails. the year Ohio was admitted as a, of pickpockets and then there will following the It will be down to be another bunch Prince of Wales we eany for there men Seattle from Van n and detectives tn all of the p Just to keep t | will probably Later on, the the downtown ¢ ition got too thick for him in specials take where often there were neigh | The Seattle aided | by 150 or 200 na oe, who w 1} es Bnd DBlazed a trail into Southeastern patrol the atreets to keep the sailors | ) Kentucky, where he hunted and | Y to his heart's content. He's wf aa here ever since. Then he married and went to work When he first started In order | Unele John Shell and his youngest son posing for the first | weal TAKES CHANCE LOS Sr meh Cae ee Se | AND SENDS HIM HOME ‘B dollar an acre, and some you | William E. Parsely talked a blue] t give away, Once Shell| when it's best to plant corn, He,spade with the best of them, altho! streak and Judge Gordon | irapees six acres for a gun, and to 200 descendents living near|as he admits, he doesn't work like | weakened “Gay those acres are worth $1,000 r of 11 children, old-|he used to. “I'm surprised the officer thought “I can remember wnen we burned @*t born youngest “When I was young, not much| me in at argued | orn in winter to keep warm,” the Just hundred or #0," he ex-| the orator I “a Midest man told me: “it was cheaper #&TaNd-chile I never thought it hard/had only ft . elder any Phan cutting wood, and wood was to (ren and > swing an ax ali day the jamica ginger 1 had was for « Ibe had for the cutting. I guess 1 4 I think,” the oldest workingman | sick “child.” have gone years without pay on, “that Ih ved right Judge Gordon took a chance and & cent for clothes animals skins bs » much and) sent him home to child too been has been the at | my lite | Water | + drink 1 ever'BRITISH TROOPS ARE } and 1 never had Indigestion nm my ite, I never tried to work | harder of faster than I thought I His eyesight 1s good; doesn't |CURht to, and I always took off| Press)—Large military forces naa} need glasses when he reade His enty of time to go fishing, even arrived in the Tipperary district to teeth are better than mine. They the corn needed hoeing, if I | day, following further evidences of | ought to be for they are hin third |thought I needed a fishing trip | differences between the reaidents and | set, and he just recently cut them.|™ore than the corn needed hoeing.” | the British authorities | “Cutting teeth after one ts a Sa UN A constabulary sergeant was mhot | y len in the head and killed and a con | roe be actly . M satiet, AUSTRIA GETS TWO dabte~ ertiteasiy wenaited. Guentay | Can Stil Swing Ax DAYS’ MORE TIME/|nieht by assassins who fired trom I saw Uncle John swing an ax. PARIS, Sept. 4.—The peace confer ence today granted Austria an exte: and if you have any idea that a n- | and thinks than they do to;man can't work at 131 get rid of sion of two days for her considera The Austrian dele | | ’ the other wise men put to- that idea, for I never saw a young- Uncle John can just about |er man handle an ax in better| gates probably treaty | | | Well Known Advertising when it's going to rain, and | fashion. He can plow, hoe and! September 12 Man Locates in Seattle the bill. In those days the cost living was mainly keeping the of ammunition up. I didn't what a meat bill was until after I was middle-aged, and I have had an ice bill, I can ber when the only money we d was animal skins, and when was as big a fuss made over Monroe Doctrine as there now # over the lengue of nations.” Call Him “Uncle John” Folks down here on Greasy creek F county, call the oldest man John.” They'think he's the t man in the world, and far more attention to what he belleve Un te. only youngster of 117 years, he ty tax receipt showing that he taxes in 1809, when he was 21 years of age tried DUBLIN, Sept 4 (United tion of the treaty will sign thi Ba THE BON MARCHE RGAIN BASEMENT Cc. LL. Armstrong. well known! Again the Bargain Basement Brings men et they Northwest. will return An Opportunity to Save on Shoes 849 Pairs of Women’s Shoes Go on the Tables Friday at $3.00 a pair psence of m signing a position director of Malléy ite one of the largest adver ©. L, Armstrong cles of Chicago, to assume direction |f{of the plah and merchand le |partments of the home office of The |Izzard company, at Seattle, He has ac an interest In the business Mr. Armstro: « known in the Northwest c In 1 lot | Force |to a cor he was iny |with a pension ax bilities at the In 1917 from overseas, he made publicity commi Incurred Somme Returning first battl of the was foner for the toria, B. C., resigning this post to join the copy department of Mallory, Mitehe In addition t Shoes—SHOES—SHOES—in grays and blacks and browns—in all- leather or with canvas tops, in contrasting colors—military heels or Louis heels—with toes plain or stitehed—eight- and nine-inch tops—and in plain or fancy styles. They're good shoes—every one of them—good-looking, well-made, styl- ish, and, above all, serviceable. 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